I don't love it when...

[stoneychips]

... When half of the pantheon decides to live in a breakaway shrine on D:9, rather than joining the Temple.

(There are no more altars under me - I was just going for symmetry there.)

Granted it's not much worse than those big triangular vaults where you get 2 or 3 at a time in little rooms spread out. It fits the narrative, though!

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[mopl]

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 Welcome, mopl the Demonspawn Fighter.
 Will you be the one to retrieve the fabulous Orb of Zot from the depths?
 Press ? for a list of commands and other information.
 Found a runed helmet, a pair of boots, a spear and 13 gold pieces.
_Found a staircase leading out of the dungeon.
 You see here a runed helmet.
_e - a runed helmet
_There is a staircase leading out of the dungeon here.
 You see here a pair of boots.
_g - a pair of boots
 There is a staircase leading out of the dungeon here.
 You start putting on your armour.
_You continue putting on your runed helmet. x4
 You finish putting on your +2 helmet of see invisible.
 You feel perceptive.

Oh nice start...

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 You have reached level 4!
 You feel stronger. Your demonic ancestry asserts itself...
 A pair of antennae grows on your head!

Of course...

[Vanguardan]

Oh crap, it's Grinder, I need to head downstairs now.

Oh look, it's Ijyb. Well, let me just Conjure Flame and I can get away down this hallway...

Never mind, it's a wand of acid. Dead in 2 turns with no chance to escape. It's D:4 so no helpful potions, scrolls or anything I could panic with.

Definitely one of my few unwinnable situations.

[mopl]

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Crypt:2 Frederick, Jory, Sojobo

[mopl]

While clearing Zot

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Items not yet recognised: (toggle with -)
Jewellery
 amulet of regeneration
 ring of see invisible
Scrolls
 scroll of acquirement

[Sorcerous]

... when my items alone give MR+++ and a V: ancient lich banished my char, at a 1% chance.

"Huh, that old trick actually still works. Enjoy Abyss:5 bitch!"

Also, when a L9 spell works just fine with a 22%-43% fail rate but just waits for that moment you really need it not to backfire - at a 2% fail rate. It will fail. With a disgusting, spiteful regularity.

[Sorcerous]

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There is a stone staircase leading down here.
You climb downwards. You set off the alarm!
A sentinel's mark forms upon you.
You hear a croak. You hear an angry hiss. x2; You hear a howl! You hear a
chilling moan. You hear a shout! x6
You hear a horrible gurgling sound! You hear a shout! You hear an angry hiss.
You hear a shout! x7
You hear a bellow! x3; You hear an angry hiss.


Thanks, game.

[argonaut]

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Tiamat, Avatar of the Dragonlord comes into view. She is wielding the +8 demon
_trident "Rift" {distort, reach+}.

[Pteriforever]

"An eight-headed hydra comes up the stairs."

The stairs I'm standing on.

[Aean]

Have to admit, that's very polite of your character, to make room for the poor distracted hydra so that it can come up the stairs.

[petercordia]

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 39348 | D:15     | Escaped the Abyss
 39350 | D:15     | Killed from afar by a wizard


I exited the Abyss with less-than-full hp.
He got me with a bouncing Lightning bolt doublezap.

[Turukano]

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You open the door. 12 killer bees and a sky beast come into view.

[Fingolfin]

Autoexplore made me kill a butterfly :'(

[Aean]

...thanks, Xom. Really. That was just what I needed.

Edit: Read a scroll of fear and ran like hell for the stairs. He ran, but came back when I was four steps from the stairs. Read another scroll of fear and escaped upstairs!

[Sorcerous]

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You hear the slow rusting of a drain.
...
You enter the shallow water.
Moving in this stuff is going to be slow.
The portal is a mimic!
The portal mimic chortles and vanishes in a puff of smoke!


This really reinforces that fraud of an incredible tourist brochure, followed by staring in horror at the empty lot where the hotel is supposed to be. I even got lucky with identifying the map scroll. Damn it, game, we're better than this.

[aaron]

Accidentally went to my first Zig (mistook it for Trove)... had to bail at :8 made it out via Invisibility and Silence vs. crypt, only a mummy priest followed back to the depths, that was close:

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...then:

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ERROR in 'libutil.cc' at line 390: screen write out of bounds: (1,36) into (139,35)

We crashed! This is likely due to a bug in Crawl.
Please submit a bug report at https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/ and include:
- The crash report: /home/ape/.crawl/morgue/crash-Natwop-20200511-224955.txt
- Your save file: /home/ape/.crawl/saves/Natwop.cs
- A description of what you were doing when this crash occurred.

Aborted


then resume and...

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doh

[ichbins]

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  3834 | D:4      | Noticed a vampire
...
  4325 | D:4      | Noticed a yak
  4326 | D:4      | Noticed a yak

Wow, I've never seen a vampire on d4 before!

[Odds]

... I bail out of extended after 3 Pan runes, go into Zot 1 hoping for a fairly painless ascension, and see this:

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I died. What actually did most of the job is not pictured here - I (carelessly) didn't have SInv, and there was a ghost moth or three, which rather massacred my panic buttons.

[Majang]

I hate it when the game begins well, I find nice equipment, think this could be a nice run - and then I turn a corner on D3 to stand face to face with Ijyb, who happens to have a wand of acid.

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You block Ijyb's attack.
You hit Ijyb but do no damage.
Ijyb is moderately wounded.
You block Ijyb's attack.
You hit Ijyb. You burn Ijyb.
Ijyb is heavily wounded.
Ijyb zaps a wand. The bolt of acid hits you!! The acid corrodes you!
You are splashed with acid!
You slash Ijyb! You burn Ijyb.
Ijyb is almost dead.
Ijyb zaps a wand. The bolt of acid hits you! The acid corrodes you!
You are splashed with acid!
* * * LOW HITPOINT WARNING * * *
You hit Ijyb but do no damage.
Ijyb is almost dead.
Ijyb barely misses you.
Your chain mail prevents you from hitting Ijyb.
Ijyb is almost dead.
Ijyb zaps a wand. The bolt of acid hits you!!
You die...

[Turukano]

Not very funny.

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  1718 | D:3      | Noticed Grinder
  1747 | D:3      | Paralysed by Grinder for 7 turns
  1753 | D:3      | Slain by Grinder


[Magipi]

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Vanquished Creatures
  (...)
  13 jackals (D:1)

[Majang]

...I get sent to the Abyss by Sonja at Level 13. So far the Abyss goes nicely, because just previously a scroll of acquirement gave me an evening star of holy wrath, and as a Fo I manage to stay in little nooks and crannies to pounce on unsuspecting demons and abominations. But then I get "suddenly pulled into a different region of the Abyss", and where do I land? I'm in the only solid square in a huge field of lava! Since TSO gives me a nice shine, it won't take long until every demon and its brother will come at me from all directions...

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You kill the sixfirhy!
The Shining One accepts your kill.
You feel better.
You start resting.
You are suddenly pulled into a different region of the Abyss!
Why would you want to do that?
Okay, then.

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[Majang]

...when I dare to play another Octopode game, and I make it to the lair without finding a single ring - not even a bad one. And I also did not identify a scroll of blinking, so when I turned a corner and tried to stare down that huge hydra, the game was basically over.

[mopl]

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 j - [Gauntlet] the +1 cloak of Starlight {rElec rC+ EV+4 Stlth--}
 l - [Gauntlet] the +2 ratskin cloak {+Rats rPois rN+ Str-1 Int-1 Dex+1}
 o - [Gauntlet] the +7 pearl dragon scales "Ikkeex" {+Fly rElec rPois rN+ Stlth-}

When this some of the Minotaur loot in Gauntlet, and I'm an Op...

[Sorcerous]

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As you open the door, it creaks loudly!
2 draconian knights, Agnes and Sojobo come into view.
Sojobo is wielding a +2 great sword of electrocution. A black draconian knight
is wielding a +2 great mace of draining. A purple draconian knight is wielding
a +3 vampiric great sword.


This is the V:1 we all know happens at some point.

[Sorcerous]

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There is a staircase to the Orcish Mines here.
You climb downwards. Welcome to the Orcish Mines!
A warg and 17 orcs come into view.
An orc warrior is wielding a +1 war axe of electrocution. An orc sorcerer is
wielding a +2 dagger of venom.
The orc warlord shouts! The orc warrior shouts! The orc sorcerer shouts! The
orc warrior shouts! The orc shouts! x2
The orc warrior shouts! x2; The orc shouts! The orc warrior shouts! The orc
shouts! The orc priest shouts!
The orc sorcerer shouts! The warg howls! The orc warrior shouts! The orc
shouts! You hear a shout!
There is a staircase back to the Dungeon here.
The orc sorcerer mumbles some strange words. x2
You block the orc's attack. The orc misses you.
The orc warrior hits you from afar with a +0 halberd.
The orc warlord roars a battlecry!
The orcs go into a battle-frenzy!


Welcome to the mines, indeed.

[Sorcerous]

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There is a hole to the Spider Nest here.
You climb downwards. Welcome to the Spider Nest!
This branch contains the gossamer rune of Zot.
A jumping spider, 4 redbacks and Roxanne come into view.
The jumping spider hisses angrily.
Marking area around Roxanne as unsafe for travelling.


Roxanne has my char in firing range, right at the entrance. Just had to post this, I haven't been this surprised in a long time.